150 year-old Galapagos tortoise? It wouldn’t be my first choice for dinner. With all those tasty, young marine iguanas running around, eating the tortoise was just spiteful.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422402
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422402 When I read articles such as this I sometimes feel ashamed to be a human. With all these brains it didn’t occur to them to create an aquarium that would have allowed to creature to live, thus giving them more time to study it? We obviously haven’t evolved as much as we like to think.

Wolves have a better moral system than humans do.

@82 You are right on the money..

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422147
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422147poor fish had to die for us to find out that its head is in fact see-through. what good does this do, what purpose did the fish die for? such a waste. how many did they kill trying to bring to the surface through the nets?
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422403
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422403I think I’m related to this fish…my wife has been telling me that I’m transparent for many years…….
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422659
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422659#150 is right. But perhaps dead bodies are hard to come by in the ocean oh-so-deep.

Few points:

1) I understand those pitying the fish. I pity it too because I hate to see anything allowed to die/killed/murdered/slaughtered, etc. I love all life, especially worms, fish, reptiles, and plants. It probably had a pretty terrifying end and I hope it wasn’t too painful or horrific.

2) I understand those saying the fish is “just one fish”. It’s true. We eat all sorts of things all day. Life is life and in order to live, anything heterotrophic needs to eat. I think people are just unwilling to understand that much of scientific material is not collected when something is alive; we can only know the true nature of every piece of an animal after studying its corpse.

3) I DON’T understand why people are arguing about it (although I do see that this is far more civilized than most arguments/discussions I’ve seen before) when the fish is already dead. We can hope that the scientists have all they need from this dead specimen so they don’t need to sacrifice another life. Chances are, though, that it won’t be the last funny-looking fish to die.

We have to accept that we are not omniscient and that we cannot just look at something and know all there is to know about it. Because of our lack of knowledge and magical powers, we have to kill to gain knowledge.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422404
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422404Oh man! I saw this on the World Weekly News website and just assumed it was fake.

So it looks like Bat Boy endorsing Obama was real, then too.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422149
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422149“…they were able to bring a net-caught barreleye to the surface alive, where it survived for several hours in a ship-board aquarium.”

so glad we could kill such a beautiful creature just for our amusement. cuz knowing it has this shield is gonna cure cancer or something. glad 2 know no one is wasting their time or our tax dollars.

psht

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422150
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422150Obviously, the researchers made a mistake. That is not fish. That is a submarine model XQZ11 belonging to the tiny Atlantean race, but if it makes you happy you can call a fish.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422662
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422662my name is casey that is totally the grossest thing ever! I am in 4A!
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422151
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422151AWESOME ………..
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422663
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422663Perhaps it is very intriguing that such a discovery is made. However the setbacks from people of a narrow mindset has been and will always be the bane of scientific research. it is unfortunate. Altough, congratulations to the scientists who made the research, as it could prove to be beneficial in the future. :)
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422664
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422664amazing its like you can see its brains ewwwwww
]]>By: Delthalashttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422920
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422920I wrote #180 too.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422665
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422665this is so cool!!! but the fishy is really cute!! but creepy, like are those green things its eye scokets? lol. but poor fishy, he died because of the curiosity of the world. awww!!! lol. but it is a really neat picture. i wish i had a transparent head!!! it almost looks animated.
]]>By: eric the redhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422154
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422154I have dated some women before who had transparent heads…kind of scary.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422667
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422667dudeee i want it as pet !
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422158
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422158Did the fish survive observation??
]]>By: wormbabyhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422414
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422414I think the people worring about this “poor fish” dying and those wondering about taste need to know they are not rare nor in danger of extintion but worst of all max size 4.4 cm. A big Anchovy is 15 cm so you are not going to taste much at all!
]]>By: Antinous / Moderatorhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422926
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422926Delthalas,

Why don’t you take the night off to read the Mod Policy.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-423950
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-423950nice fish, big fuckin eyes but nice fish. Quote From Bad Boy’s 2
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422163
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422163COOL!!! It’s sad that it died though. And this goes to the people who want a transparent head: Ew. You can see all the blood veins and your brain and other icky stuff. I’d rather be bald, David.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422421
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422421wow this is pretty cool but just a little creepy at the same time
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422677
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422677waat in the hail is that thing?
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422166
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422166Supreme God is amazing…Fish can have Third Eye too? WOW!!! so incredible!
]]>By: robulushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-422422
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-422422I love the way people get hysterical about a single fish being caught, examined and killed for the purposes of scientific research.

Get some perspective. What about all the bird life, adult sea-turtles and dolphins that die daily in drift nets and on long lines, so we can enjoy a tuna sandwich? What about the poor dam tuna?

Vegan anti-vivisection activists only on that one, please.

]]>By: Jeffhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/fish-with-transparen.html#comment-421655
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-421655Dave, your brain could get sunburned! It’s a very Robby the Robot kinda look. Splice in a few glow genes and it gets evern cooler.
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